As a massive fan of Pro Evo throughout the years, one of my favourite features has always been the edit mode. The chance to enhance the game we all love to play is most welcome and as an avid user of many of the OF's, customised kits, emblems, created teams/players - I strived to find a way I could add my own small contribution to a community that continues to make PES the definitive football game for me...enter CHANTS

After downloading some chants through PES community member 'neilez2' back on PES 2011 (I think?!) - I thought to myself what would it sound like in-game if rather than having an mp3 with just one chant, you could make your own 1-2minute mp3 that contained a variety of chants, fading in and out like a real crowd with a variety of volume levels to try and capture the real sounds of real stadiums across the world...

After scouring youtube and the internet for crowd audio & lots of time in audio editing software making my own mp3's I found the results to be rather successful and after a bit of a stop/start affair with releasing packs for use in PES 2011/PES 2012 - PES 2013 now truly realises the 'evolution' of the idea conceived 2 years ago and the release of COMPREHENSIVE chant packs for the whole community to share, enjoy and enhance over the coming months.

What They Work On

First and foremost - these chant packs have been created for the PS3 version of PES 2013. In respect to the 360/PC versions of the game, I am unsure whether they can be transferred/adapted to those systems.

In the process of creating the chants, I did once download adx file formatted chants (what is used on the PC) and was able to convert them into mp3 for use on the PS3. Therefore, it may be possible to do the opposite and convert mp3 --> adx and be able to use on the PC. For the 360, I am unsure how chants work and whether you can use them in edit mode.

Between the PES community I am certain we'll be able to get answers whether they can be put to use on the 360/PC - but for now, these have been made for the PS3.

How To Install In Your Game

These chant packs and the individual mp3's can be used/assigned to ANY TEAM within PES 2013. Unlike say kits/logo's whereby you cannot edit the team's already licensed in the game - you can add chants to every single team, that includes any created teams from the various OF's you may have installed.

For a step-by-step guide from how to download, transfer to USB, adding to your PS3 harddrive & assigning in-game - I have made the following tutorial (Now I did want Morgan Freeman to narrate...but then heard a rumour he died, so had to do it myself!) Any questions on the process just ask. TWO-PARTER because it's just THAT epic!

It's been a loooong process thus far to get these out to everyone, so I really do hope you all enjoy them and they enhance your gaming experience. I'll be looking to create more throughout the months we enjoy with PES 2013 and as always your comments, feedback and engagement is more than welcome and encouraged so that these packs can be tailored to what the PES community wants.

I can't express enough how much I feel they add to matches - hearing the chants/songs in-game that we're used to listening to when we watch football in reality really ramps up the occasion and can make such a difference!

I downloaded these from WENB and installed them last night. Really adds a lot to the atmosphere! I only tried a few of the EPL teams and everything worked great in the match but for some reason the preview feature wouldn't work when I clicked the square button. Not sure why that would be but as long as the files play during the matches I don't really care. Thanks again chuckbass!

Some are the same content, but all have been edited due to volume changes within the game. There are a LOT of new chants though - especially in Premier League / Eredivisie / La Liga (first time releasing!) & Rest of Europe.

@ sonystar - happy to report with my game, my OF and over 400+ chants installed, there were NO signs of any slowdown during gameplay at all. As if nothing was installed at all I did get somewhat of a 'placebo' effect last year...but looks to not be an issue in 2013.

@ lexandro - don't own PES for the PC so totally in the dark on how chants are installed to it / formats used / how they are assigned in game - just waiting for someone to get in touch and see if we can come up with a solution to get them out on all formats, 360 included...

Glad you're enjoying them so far though. There will be more packs throughout the coming months and new versions based around feedback/transfers in real life etc...The more discussions and interest in these, the more I'll be wanting to do - so keep up the enthusiasm and I hope PES 2013 can be the best sounding football title of all-time

@ sonystar - happy to report with my game, my OF and over 400+ chants installed, there were NO signs of any slowdown during gameplay at all. As if nothing was installed at all I did get somewhat of a 'placebo' effect last year...but looks to not be an issue in 2013.
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This sounds good mate, can't wait to start my ML with ManUtd and hearing those chants!!! ou yeaaah.

Just waiting for some option file updates and then I can start working my team to the 20th league win :P